Bride Puts All the 'Plus-Size' Guests at Same Wedding Table, Claims She Was Being ‘Body Positive'
When she approached her sister about the table name, her sister told her stop being "sensitive" over the issue
Instead of staying for the rest of the celebration, she made the decision to leave the wedding early, taking her gift with herA woman on Reddit is wondering if she's in the wrong for being offended that her sister sat all the plus-size wedding guests at one table.
In a post on Reddit's r/AmIOverreacting forum, the 32-year-old woman explains that she was recently a bridesmaid in her 30-year-old sister's wedding.
"I helped her plan stuff, I went to all the things, I paid for my dress/hair/makeup, the whole nine yards," she writes. "I didn't complain, I showed up early, I did what I was supposed to do because I wanted her day to go well."
Though the reception seemed to go off without a hitch, the real drama happened when she got to the reception. Instead of being seated with the other people in the wedding party, she found her name at a table labeled "Weight Watchers."
"I swear to god, the little name card says 'Weight Watchers.' Not like a cute table name or a funny inside joke…just 'Weight Watchers,'" she writes. "I thought maybe I misread it or something but nope. I look around and realize everyone at the table is plus-size. All of us. Every single person there."
In her post, the woman notes that while her younger sister and brother are slim, she has put on weight in recent years, joking that after turning 25, "everything started sticking to me."
"I pulled my sister aside and asked her what the hell that was about and she literally laughed," the poster continues. "She goes, 'Oh my god don't be so sensitive, I just thought it'd be more comfortable if people were with others like them. It's a body positive thing.' "
The woman was "mortified" by the response, asking, "How is putting all the bigger people at one table 'body positive'?? It felt more like 'hide the fat guests in the corner so they don't ruin the aesthetic.' "
Though she was openly hurt by her sister's body-shaming, instead of fussing further at the event, she just decided to leave the reception. "I didn't make a big scene, I just quietly grabbed my gift and dipped," she writes.
She shares in an update that both her father and her mother reached out to her when they realized she'd disappeared. Though they both tried to "talk me into sucking it up and coming back," she stayed home. Her sister, however, has not addressed her disappearance from the wedding.
"It's been 5 days and she hasn't reached out, nor have I, but she is on her honeymoon so I don't expect to hear from her for a few more days," she writes. "Maybe I'll be over it by then, but my feelings are legit so hurt right now."
Now, she wonders if she may be "overreacting," or if she is right to feel that her sister's actions were "straight-up rude and humiliating."
"Also I wore Spanx for 4 hours and I want compensation," she humorously concludes.
Other Reddit users in the comments are decidedly on her side, noting that naming the table "Weight Watchers" was a blatantly rude decision.
"That was incredibly rude and childish of her and you have every reason to be upset," one Reddit user wrote. "Weddings are supposed to be a time of joining together, not making people feel separated or singled out."
"The 'oh my god don't be so sensitive' and 'be with others like them' says right there that she's not empathetic, dismissive and probably other things I can't think of right now," another commenter chimed in.
"She knew exactly what she was doing…being a bully and disguising it as being 'progressive' with the body positivity buzz word."
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